Mohammed Abdulraziq, aged 32, from Winson Green, was found guilty of false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault and assault
Birmingham Crown Court pictured in 2023(Image: Martin O’Callaghan / Birmingham Live)
A man has been found guilty of taking a five-year-old girl off the street and sexually attacking her.
Mohammed Abdulraziq was caught inside his home in Winson Green with the child who had gone missing from her mother minutes earlier while playing on the street.
When a neighbour climbed through his window he was standing next to the girl and both of them had their shorts down.
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He was then accused of punching the neighbour, forcing her back outside, before others intervened and forced his door open.
Following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court Sudanese national Abdulraziq, aged 32, was found guilty of false imprisonment, sexual assault and assault.
Judge Kerry Maylin ordered for him to be assessed by the probation service for ‘dangerousness’, which could result in a life or extended sentence if deemed necessary to protect the public.
Sentencing was adjourned until December 9. Judge Maylin said: “A long custodial sentence is, I’m afraid inevitable.
“You must be back at this court for sentence on the 9th of December.
“In the meantime you will be remanded into custody.”
At about 2pm on March 30 this year barefooted Abdulraziq, who had been drinking beer and smoking ‘Mamba’, walked past the girl’s mother in the street and made some sort of sexual remark to her.
Although, she could not understand exactly what he said because of the language barrier.
Abdulraziq went back into his house a few doors away.
A few minutes later the mother noticed her five-year-old daughter, who had been running up and down the road, was missing.
She and a friend, who lived on the road, went to look for her in a nearby alleyway, park and shop but she was still nowhere to be seen.
“As they returned to the street they hear the sound of crying,” said prosecutor Tariq Shakoor, who told the court the mother recognised the sobs of her daughter coming from Abdulraziq’s home.
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He continued: “The front door to the property is locked.
“(The mother) then starts to bang on the window and door of the property.
“The defendant is plainly in that room with the child at this time and her mother, in panic, picks up a piece of wood to try and smash the window.
“That window isn’t smashed despite the attempt to break it.”
At that point the mother’s friend noticed the top of the ground floor window was open and tried to climb through it.
Giving evidence, she recalled the girl’s mother saying: ‘she’s in there, she’s in this house I can hear her’.
The witness then broke down in tears describing what she saw inside Abdulraziq’s flat when she put her head through the window.
She said: “I opened the window and I saw (the girl) and that man.
“They were standing not too far away from the window. Next to the bed.
“They were standing next to each other. (The girl) was facing the window. He was slightly turned towards her bending down.”
She stated the girl’s shorts and Abdulraziq’s shorts were ‘to the floor’.
The witness went on: “I was telling (the girl) to come here. I had stuck my hand out.
“But she was just standing there crying. He started to wave his arms towards me and then reached behind me to get the window to close.
“He was swinging his arms and then he hit me in my cheek bone.
“Then he reached behind me and managed to pull the window, so I fell back.”
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Two men who had noticed the commotion came to help and forced Abdulraziq’s door open.
They dragged him to the floor and one of them sat on him to detain him.
Meanwhile the mother’s friend reached over and retrieved the girl.
While she was being tended to the child told her mum ‘he hurt me’.
Abdulraziq gave a completely innocent explanation for the events in his defence.
He confirmed he had been in the UK for around ten years and had been living at the address, which had two other tenants, for up to two months.
Abdulraziq claimed the mother and her daughter had been into the property on a prior occasion visiting someone else.
He purported that on March 30 the girl ran into the building on her own, went to the toilet and then came into his room crying and asking for him to help pull her shorts up.
Abdulraziq denied kidnapping, detaining, touching and sexually assaulting the girl or deliberately striking the woman who entered his window.
He went on to claim the child’s mother sent her daughter in to his home intentionally as part of a ‘plan’.
He added: “She always looked down at me.”